The steam engine familiarly explained and illustrated; with an historical sketch of its invention and progressive improvement; its applications to navigation and railways; with plain axioms for railway speculators (1849)
nabandoned, for the very obvious reason that a prodigiousloss of force was incurred by the friction of the chain. The following year, 1813, produced a contrivance of sin-gular ingenuity, for overcoming the supposed difficulty aris-ing from the want of atlhesion between the wheels and theroad. This… … LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES ON RAILWAYS. 163 carriage moving on the railroad, l and l are the legs, r andf the feet. The foot p has a joint at o, which corresponds tothe ankle; another joint is placed at k, which corresponds tothe knee : and a third is placed at l, which corresponds to thehip. Similar…
Steam-engines
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